Transatlantic conflicts over data have been studied from several perspectives. The EU-U.S. debate that led to the Safe Harbor Arrangement has typically been seen as an instance of a regulatory conflict or competition between two powers with different approaches to data protection or privacy. The Passenger Name Record (PNR) dispute and the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Transactions (SWIFT) affair, on the other hand, have mostly been understood as cases of struggle between counterterrorism and civil liberties; according to a prevailing view, they are examples of 'hegemonic'...